Getting over the "unlock hump" on the Moon
I tend to use the Moon Guide that someone posted on Steam. There are many graphs on Earth, Moon, and Mars showing the profit gains. Here's the guide for the Moon: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=443045440
It's very lengthy, but here's the first part that gives a brief strategy without going into specifics.
This strategy works by making you hit milestones which multiply the profit gained from businesses. What follows is a brief list of things you should aim for, followed by a lengthier explanation which tries to be a bit more elaborate, especially if you are stuck at certain parts. The list only contains business-specific milestones. You should purchase upgrades on your own. For the "x of everything" milestones, check out the table below.
Reach the following investment quantities in that order:
- 160 Moon Shoes (cost ~ $233,846)
- 120 Payday Clones (cost ~ $140.458 million)
- 90 Oxygen Bars (cost ~ $12.788 billion)
- 64 Cheese Mines (cost ~ $7.554 trillion)
- 180 Oxygen Bars (cost ~ $29.874 trillion)
- 128 Cheese Mines (cost ~ $18.854 quadrillion)
- 150 Werewolf Colonies (cost ~ $9.926 quintillion)
- 360 Oxygen Bars (cost ~ $162.992 quintillion)
- 450 Werewolf Colonies (cost ~ $392.363 nonillion)
- 2880 Oxygen Bars (cost ~ $3.365 septentrigintillion)
- 2160 Amusement Parks (cost ~ $93.007 unquinquagintillion)
- 2600 Helium-3 Farms (cost ~ $8.154 quattuorquinquagintillion)
- 2300 Amusement Parks (cost ~ $326.993 quattuorquinquagintillion)
- 3500 Werewolf Colonies (cost ~ $674.175 quinquinquagintillion)
- 2540 Amusement Parks (cost ~ $7.571 sexagintillion)
- 3800 Werewolf Colonies (cost ~ $26.648 sexagintillion)
- 3000 Helium-3 Farms (cost ~ $15.506 duosexagintillion)
- 4100 Werewolf Colonies (cost ~ $1.053 quinsexagintillion)
- 3000 Amusement Parks (cost ~ $175.647 septuagintillion)
So that's very basic milestones you should aim for, but the guide is very in-depth if you want to learn strategies for overcoming that hump we all hit on the moon.